One Last Post

We are throwing in the towel on blogging. Thanks for checking in with us! Here is one last picture to share with you. We went to Disney at the beginning of October. Even with one entire day of rain, the kids still had a blast! :o)

Choir Performance~Valerie & Lauren

After Andrea's performance, we moved on over to the Worship Center for Valerie and Lauren's performances in "Happily Forever After". They both did a wonderful jobs! Lauren started out a a tourist and then changed into a princess dress and joined the choir. Valerie played the part of Fee Fee, the keeper of the bridge.

This is right after the musical was over. You can tell how proud Valerie was of herself!

Lauren is on the front row in both of these pictures...

Choir Performance~Andrea

March 27th, Andrea had a choir performance at church. She was excited to see so many family members there to watch her! Thanks for making the trip out to see her!

Angela & Bob

Granpa, Gran, and Nana

Gran & Nana

Granpa & Gran (with Nana cropped out because she was TALKING!)

The star of the show!

Andrea Gets Her Cast Off

On March 9th, Andrea got to go back to the doctor to get her cast removed. As you can see, she was a nervous wreck while we were waiting for them to come into the room. Ha Ha Ha!

"Andrea, stop being silly and let me see your cast for the picture..."
It actually tickled her when they were cutting it off!

After many, many months of asking when they could get their ears pierced (mostly by Andrea), Russell finally gave in. You should have seen Andrea's face when he finally said yes! The girls decided amongst themselves what the order would be. Andrea first, then Lauren, then Valerie. They were all brave and are very glad that they did it! Enjoy the video!

O S C A R ... M A Y E R

We left church one day to find the Weiner Mobile at the new Kroger across the street from church. Lauren missed it because she was at Grandmama's. :o( The Hardmans were there and we have them to thank for the pictures.

Daddy's Birthday

March 4th was Daddy's 69th birthday. Thank goodness he does not even own a computer or I'd probably be in trouble for broadcasting his age. :o) We got together at Carrabba's in Athens.

No pictures of Angela, Bob,Valerie or Chad, but they were all there as well.

I forgot to take a picture of me with Daddy at the restaurant so we stopped by his place.

That may sound weird, but he has a thing about pictures and has some rules that go into effect when he turns 70...that's my Daddy.

Don't ever say Aunt Mandy does not know how to have fun.

Katie taking care of Tucker and Ben/looking for an excuse to be out of her chair. :o)

Andrea Is Playing Soccer!!!

We began March with Andrea's first soccer practice and ended it with her first game. Her team is the Fire Flies and she loves playing!

February Pictures Part Three

I tried to make this past Friday really special. Valerie was at Grandmama's so it was the perfect time to order a "movie night" icing cake, since Valerie does not care for icing cake. Lauren and Andrea just loved it.

Russell has become quite the runner. We went out one weekend and cheered him on in a race.

Valerie's teacher worked out a deal with her. If she could stay focused for so many days, then she could bring in Daisy as a reward. Valerie finally earned the required number of stickers. She was beside herself when I came up to the school with Daisy.

Andrea fell on Valentine's night and broke her wrist. We were in and out of the urgent care in an hour and a half. I let her pick whatever she wanted for supper, she went with Raviolis. :o)

February Pictures Part Two

Ready to head out with their Daddy for a special date night.

Russell took Andrea to the Chick-fil-a Daddy/Daughter date night. We kept it a surprise to her as to where he was taking her. That ended up being a bit of a mistake. He said that when they got to the parking lot she said, "What are we doing in this ridiculous place?" Found out later that she was hoping for Monkey Joe's. She gave Russell a bit of a hard time, but really did have fun!

I could not love this picture from the Gainesville Parks and Recreation Daddy Daughter Dance anymore. Wish I could have been there, but I know they need this special time together.